Album

L'Enfant Sauvage

Album

L'Enfant Sauvage

The long-anticipated fifth album from France’s world-famous purveyors of super-heavy prog metal, L’Enfant Sauvage is marked by an appropriate mixture of classic metal chug and Mastodon levels of nerd-ery. Make no mistake: That’s a good thing. Gojira come off as a slightly more stoner/less noise-influenced version of their Atlanta-based contemporaries -- even when they’re deep in prog territory, they never forget to cram in a totally mega part. See the end of the title cut for starters, and all of “The Axe.”

About This Album

The long-anticipated fifth album from France’s world-famous purveyors of super-heavy prog metal, L’Enfant Sauvage is marked by an appropriate mixture of classic metal chug and Mastodon levels of nerd-ery. Make no mistake: That’s a good thing. Gojira come off as a slightly more stoner/less noise-influenced version of their Atlanta-based contemporaries -- even when they’re deep in prog territory, they never forget to cram in a totally mega part. See the end of the title cut for starters, and all of “The Axe.”

Mike McGuirk

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About This Album

The long-anticipated fifth album from France’s world-famous purveyors of super-heavy prog metal, L’Enfant Sauvage is marked by an appropriate mixture of classic metal chug and Mastodon levels of nerd-ery. Make no mistake: That’s a good thing. Gojira come off as a slightly more stoner/less noise-influenced version of their Atlanta-based contemporaries -- even when they’re deep in prog territory, they never forget to cram in a totally mega part. See the end of the title cut for starters, and all of “The Axe.”